23:51
The two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists arrested from Deoband in Saharanpur last month have confessed to recruiting several youths in their terror outfit, said ATS officials on Tuesday.The duo, Kulgam resident Shahnawaz Teli and Aquib Ahmad Malik from Pulwama made this confession during their...
23:49
The Indian Air Force is in the process of equipping its Su-30MKI with Israeli SPICE-2000 laser-guided bombs, as part of its effort to make the fighter jets more potent, official sources said.Currently, the IAF's Mirage-2000 are equipped with the SPICE-2000 bombs and these aircraft were used in...
23:18
Britain's counter-terrorism police are investigating after three padded mailing bags with what appears to be small explosive devices inside were found in London.Police said smaller bags inside the mailers enclosed the devices that 'appear capable of igniting an initially small fire when...
23:04
Pakistan's Punjab province government on Tuesday sacked its Information and Culture Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan over his anti-Hindu remarks that invited intense criticism from senior party leaders and the minority community.Prime Minister Imran Khan took serious notice of Chohan's...
22:49
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'lives for the camera' and accused him of ignoring the problems of the sanitation staff in Prayagraj, where he washed their feet during the Kumbh Mela.Narendra Modi lives for the camera. Once the cameras were shut, the...
22:26
A soldier was injured on Tuesday as Pakistan again violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling and firing of small arms on forward posts and villages at two places along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.The unprovoked firing from across the border took...
21:45
JUST IN: Hafiz Saeed's Jamat-ud-Dawah and its subsidiary Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation banned under Anti Terrorism Act 1997 by Pakistan's Interior Ministry.The action comes on a day 44 members of the banned terror outfits, including Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar's son and brother, were taken...
21:11
Pakistan on Tuesday informed India that its delegation will visit New Delhi on March 14 to discuss a draft agreement on the Kartarpur corridor, a positive development that could help ease tensions between the two neighbours.Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal, who is also the Director...
21:03
A drone was sighted flying over a Naval station in Chennai following which an investigation has been launched, police said on Tuesday.The Naval personnel found the drone flying over the INS Adyar campus, in the heart of the city, around 9 pm on Monday, police said.The Navy on Tuesday filed a...
20:58
Indian Air Force statement on February 27 violation of Indian air space by Pakistani jets:'On Feb 27, 2019 morning, our Air Defence system was on full alert. Build up of Pakistan Air Force aircraft on their (Pakistan) side of Line of Control was noticed in time and additional aircraft were...
20:19
Indian security agencies were unmoved by reports of arrest of 44 members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad in Pakistan, with officials saying the terrorists were not arrested under the anti-terrorism laws but have only been taken in 'preventive detention for investigation'.Similar actions by the...
20:13
The cross-Line of Control trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road resumed on Tuesday after it was suspended last week following an aerial engagement between the air forces of India and Pakistan.As many as 70 trucks crossed the Kaman Post in Uri sector on the LoC as part of the barter trade between...
19:14
The Indian Navy on Tuesday dismissed as false propaganda Pakistan's claim that it had thwarted an attempt by an Indian submarine to enter the country's territorial waters. In a statement, the Pakistan Navy claimed in Islamabad that it used specialised skills to ward off the Indian submarine...
18:49
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday barred private channels from airing Indian films and television shows, amid escalating tensions between the two countries following the Pulwama terror attack. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmad, heard the case...
18:15
Union minister Piyush Goyal has stated that he is happy about the meeting between Tamil Nadu deputy CM O Panneerselvam and DMDK's Vijaykanth, which he mediated. BJP is believed to have assured Vijaykanth's wife Premalata about support from the party, but details are not immediately known...
17:50
Update: Pakistan on Tuesday arrested 44 members of banned outfits, including a brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, amid mounting pressure from the global community to rein in the terror groups operating on its soil and curb their financing. Mufti Abdur Rauf, brother of Azhar, and...
17:24
Pakistan media reports that the country has arrested Hammad Azhar, the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and the a key Jaish, operative Mufti Abdul, apart from 44 other operatives, Pakistan Interior minister Shaharyar Afridi said. ANI reports that recent interviews by Pakistan...
15:57
The Congress will not form an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit told reporters on Tuesday. A unanimous decision has been taken that there will be no alliance in Delhi, Dikshit said.The...
15:21
The UK expects a fresh move in the United Nations Security Council to have the Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar placed on the UNSC's 1267 committee's ban list may go through this time, said Mark Field, Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Read...
15:07
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday the Balakot airstrike, where the Indian Air Force targeted and destroyed a JeM camp in Pakistan last week, was not a military action as there was no damage to civilians. Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale had not given any casualty figure in the...
15:00
Pakistan on Tuesday claimed to have detected an Indian submarine before it could enter its waters, according to media reports. The Pakistan Navy used its specialised skills to ward off the submarine, successfully keeping it from entering Pakistani waters, various news channels said quoting a...
14:13
Senior journalist Harinder Baweja tweets: Since our netas are speaking like Gabbar Singh, should we ask, Kitne aadmi theh?
14:12
India Today journalist Shiv Aroor tweets: Navy releases footage to local media claiming it has 'detected' @IndianNavy submarine INS Kalvari. No word from navy yet, but if video/coordinates are authentic, then Indian Navy likely 'wants' Pak to know that attack submarine/s are lurking 200 km from...
13:41
Afzal Guru's (who was executed in 2013 for his role in 2001 Parliament attack) son Ghalib Guru appeals for a passport: I appeal that I should get a passport. I also have an Aadhaar card. If I get a passport, I can avail international medical scholarship.
13:09
The government's first reaction on the baffling lack of details in the air strike on Balakot, Pakistan. Union minister VK Singh responds to questions on BJP president Amit Shah's claim that 250 terrorists were killed in the air strike. There is no clarity on the casualties yet, with the Air...
12:22
MP Sher Singh Ghubaya from Ferozpur (Punjab) joins Indian National Congress. Sher Singh had resigned from Shiromani Akali Dal, yesterday.
12:13
Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramanian (retd) has flown both the MiG-21 and Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft. The fighter pilot served the Indian Air Force for 36 years and is an erudite and scholarly voice on strategic affairs. The author of three books, Air Vice Marshal Subramanian is a...
12:08
The Pulwama attack was perpetrated by extremists and aided by a State that seeks to destabilise India, Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said on Tuesday. Addressing a gathering of global experts from defence sector and diplomats at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue, in New Delhi, Lanba said the...
12:04
The Indian Air Force is equipping its Su-30MKI combat aircraft with the Israeli Spice-2000 bombs which were used by the force to carry out air strikes on the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists training camp inside Pakistan.Talking about the quick deployment of forces by the Air Force on the western...
11:37
India reacts to US decision to withdraw India's name from GSP program list. Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan says the government of India has to be conscious of and public welfare interests. We have very deep routed ties with USA. All the issues in the trade domain are on the table for...
11:28
The travesty of recent Indian strategic thought is it emerges not from our brains, but from whatever part of the anatomy that secretes the prickliest hormones, says Shekhar Gupta. Read the column here.
11:12
Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti tweets, Little surprise that with General Elections around the corner,the josh of patriotism hasn't even spared the skies. Y'day,Air India issued a circular to all cabin crew&cockpit crew directing them to say' Jai Hind' aftr any announcement onboard.
10:39
United States President Donald Trump on Monday announced his decision to withdraw India from the list of countries enjoying the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) program on goods exported to the US.Trump said the decision was taken as India no longer comply with the statutory eligibility...
10:29
Hitting out at Congress leader Kapil Sibal for his remarks on the February 26 IAF strike, Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Monday asked him to go to Balakot in Pakistan to check after the latter cited foreign media reports on no losses in the operation.Amid the war of words between...
10:16
The ideas of public works to employ the poor, and food rations (what we in India called the PDS or the public distribution system) can be traced to Johannes Ludovicus Vives around the same time: Even those who have dissipated their fortunes in dissolute living -- through gaming, harlots,...
10:11
Class VI girl Eepsha Aamon stopped talking to a classmate who told her that Pakistanis are bad and Modi is right to attack them. Sociology undergraduate Lakshmi Padmakumar is tired of the daily marches outside her flat, near Delhi University's North Campus, with loudspeakers blaring:...
10:02
A marriage between a Pakistani bride and an Indian groom here was called off after tensions mounted between the two countries following Pulwama attack which claimed lives of 40 CRPF personnel.Mahendra Singh, the groom residing in Khejad Ka Paar village in the border district of Barmer had booked...
09:39
The national capital has topped the list of the most polluted cities in the world in a recent study conducted by environment NGO Greenpeace India. New Delhi was ranked first among 62 polluted cities in the report, Global Air Pollution 2018, a statement from the organisation said.The...
09:29
Researchers say a London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant. It's the second such success including Berlin patient Timothy Ray Brown.Such transplants are dangerous and have failed in other patients. The new findings were published online...
08:44
Encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces in Tral of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.Local sources said that exchange of fire continued for about one hour and the house in which terrorist were hiding has been blasted.Security forces cordoned the area on Monday evening around 8...
08:06
Arguing that India had failed to assure America that it would provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets in numerous sectors, US President Donald Trump on Monday informed the US Congress about his intent to terminate the designation of India and Turkey as a beneficiary developing...
00:17
A political row broke out over alleged data theft of Andhra Pradesh voters by an IT firm in Hyderabad with the ruling Telugu Desam Party on Monday alleging a cyber conspiracy and seeking transfer of the case registered by the Telangana police to the neighbouring state.As Telangana police citing...
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